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Ordinary Horror

By David Searcy

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| Hardcover | 9780670894765

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Book Description

A spectacular debut novel, in the tradition of such masters of the contemporary Gothic as Shirley Jackson, Flannery O'Connor, and Ian McEwan

Here's a horror story for you..."David Searcy's first novel tells the story of Frank Delabano, a seventy-year-old widower who lives a perfectly quiet lContinue

A spectacular debut novel, in the tradition of such masters of the contemporary Gothic as Shirley Jackson, Flannery O'Connor, and Ian McEwan

Here's a horror story for you..."David Searcy's first novel tells the story of Frank Delabano, a seventy-year-old widower who lives a perfectly quiet life in an aging tract house neighborhood, where he keeps to himself, tending the flowerbeds in his small backyard. When his beloved roses are menaced by some sort of mysterious burrowing pest, Mr. Delabano mails away for an organic remedy he sees advertised in the local paper: gopherbane, an exotic South American plant guaranteed to get rid of garden varmints "but harmless to pets and everything else." The strange, blue-flowering plants do the trick, but the claim about their being harmless to everything else proves to be false advertising-to put it mildly. As incidents of "ordinary horror" mount daily, Searcy's tale gradually builds to an unforgettable apocalyptic climax...

Ordinary Horror marks the debut of a singularly original new voice in American fiction.

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  • Ordinary Horror

    "Here's a horror story for you," says David Searcy at the beginning of 'Ordinary Horror'. He then goes on to tell a story that is in fact very ordinary but not particularly horrific. Few readers would consider this first novel to be anything remotely ... (read full critics)

    bookotron published on Mon, 13 Sep 2010

  • Ordinary Horror

    Ordinary Horror David Searcy Plume Paperback 240 pages January 2002 (reissue) With a title like Ordinary Horror and the description on the back of the book, readers of David Searcy's reissued novel are led to believe that they are about to read a psy ... (read full critics)

    curledup published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 230 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0670894761
  • ISBN-13: 9780670894765
  • Publisher: Viking Adult
  • Pub date: Jan 29, 2001
  • Dimensions: 1226 mm x 839 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback
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